Chris Laszlo, PhD

Professor, Organizational Behavior
Weatherhead School of ManagementDistinguished Visiting Scholar, Benedictine University Visiting Professor, The Drucker School of Management, Claremont Graduate University

Chris Laszlo is Professor in the Department of Organizational Behavior at the Weatherhead School of Management. He is a partner and co-founder of Sustainable Value Partners, a strategy consulting firm working with senior leaders in some of the world's largest companies to transform societal opportunities and risks into sources of competitive advantage. He has led hundreds of executive seminars and spoken widely on “Sustainability for business advantage” inside companies and at leading business schools including the Weatherhead School of Management, the Darden School of Business, the Kenan-Flager Business School, the European business school INSEAD, and Cornell University.

In addition to his academic experience and consulting work, Laszlo spent nearly 10 years as an executive at Lafarge, a world leader in building materials; he held positions as head of strategy, general manager of a manufacturing subsidiary, and vice president of business development. Prior to that, he spent five years with Deloitte Touche, where he consulted on strategy to global industry leaders. Laszlo is the author of five books, including Embedded Sustainability: the Next Big Competitive Advantage (2011), Sustainable Value: How the World’s Leading Companies Are Doing Well by Doing Good (2008), and of numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is the general editor of The Business of Sustainability, the second volume of the Encyclopedia of Sustainability (2010).

Educated at Swarthmore College, Columbia University, and the University of Paris, Chris earned a PhD in Economics and Management Science.

The Weatherhead School of Management is different from other business schools. We are bold in our ideas, creative in our approach, and adaptive in our interactions within a changing business environment. We've enhanced traditional management education by integrating the fundamentals of business with ideas and practices that change individuals, organizations and societies. At Weatherhead, we develop leaders as good global citizens who innovate to create sustainable value.Founded in
1939.
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